14 Smart Charts

How Many Hours?

All of us enjoy watching television (TV) or listening to the radio.

How much time do we spend in this?

❖ Note the time you spend in front of a TV or radio every day. Do
this for one week. The time spent in a week is _________ hours.
So in a month you spend about 30 × ___ = _____ hours.
❖ Find out from your friends the time they spend in a week.

How many hours they watch TV Number of V

t c hT
or listen to the radio (in a week) children wa urs!
c an ho
More than 6 hours
I
r 24 od or
fo t go e?
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Six hours Is for m
bad
Five hours
Four hours
Three hours
Two hours
One hour
Zero hour (do not watch)

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From your table
Watching TV/listening to the radio...
❖ ________ children spend more than 6 hours in a week.
❖ ________ children spend no time at all.
❖ Most children spend ________ hours in a week.
❖ ________ children spend more than 3 hours.

Which Programme?
There are different types of programmes on TV or radio such as
cartoons, news, sports, music, plays, serials. Juhi's father likes
watching serials. Her mother likes sports. Juhi likes news
programmes.
(1) Ask people in your family to name one programme they like
and one programme they dislike. Make a table.

Family member Programme they like Programme they dislike

Mother

Father

The kind of programme most family members like ___________

The kind of programme most family members dislike _______

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2) Find out from 20 friends the programmes they like and
dislike, and write in a table.

Kind of Number of Number of

programme children liking it children disliking it

News
Serials
Cartoons
Comedy shows
Sports

❖ Which kind of programme is liked by most children?

❖ Which kind of programme is disliked by the least number of
children?
❖ How many children like sports programmes?
❖ Is there any kind of programme not liked by any one?
Yes/No If yes, which one? ________________.

Who is my friend?

I've a friend with me always,

In the nights and through the days.

When I run he runs with me,
Sometimes I lead, sometimes he.
When it's dark he can't be seen,

Do you know which friend I mean?

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 ❖ Read the poem carefully and answer these questions:
a) Which word comes most often in the poem?
b) Which letter has been used most?
c) Which letter comes the least?

❖ Take a paragraph you like from your language textbook. Read

carefully and find out:
a) Which word comes most often? ________
How many times? ________
b) Which word comes least often? ________________
c) The letter used most often is ________________
d) The letter used least often is ________________

Food We Eat
Children were talking about what things they eat in the morning
— made of rice, wheat, maize, barley, etc.

tis ink
a t c hapa e t o dr f
Ie m I li k de o My favourite is
a d e fro m a
I eat rice and m t. But, I eat sattu arley. porridge made
things made whea rotis made b from ragi.
from rice. from maize.

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Find out from your classmates and fill the table:
Main food Number of persons

Rice

Wheat

Look at the table and tell:

❖ Most children eat food made from _____________.
❖ Compared to children who eat rice, those who eat wheat are
more/less/equal.
❖ Compared to those who eat wheat, children eating ragi are
more/less.

Preparing for the Class Drama

All children of a class are getting ready for a drama. Some
children are acting. Some are busy collecting the dresses. Some
are bringing tables and chairs to make the sets.

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 The Drama Chart This shows 3
children

Number of
Children

Acting Collecting Playing Making

Dresses music the sets

a) How many children are acting in the drama?

b) Which are more — children making the sets or those acting?
c) What is being done by most of the children?
d) How many children are collecting dresses?

Whose Head is Bigger?

Cut long paper strips from waste paper.
Give one strip to each of your friends.
Now put the paper strip around your
head and tear off the extra strip. On a
big sheet, paste these paper strips
along a line.

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Some children had pasted their strips and
Madhu
made a chart like this.
R o h i t
Your chart should also look like this.
Ramesh

❖ Use a scale and find out from your chart: Sadiq

The length of the longest strip is _________ cm. Sameena

So ____________ has the biggest head.

The smallest strip is ___________ cm long. It belongs to __________.

Chapati Chart
All children of a school take part in different clubs:

Games Clubs Garden Club

The Chapati Chart shows the number

of children in different clubs.

Drawing Club
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From the picture we can see that:
a) Half the children in the class take part in the Games Club.
b) One fourth of the children are members of the Garden Club.
c) The Drawing Club has one fourth of the children of the class.
If there are 200 students in the school, look at the above Chapati
Chart and tell the number of members in each club:
❖ The Games Club has ______ members.
❖ The Garden Club has ______ members.
❖ There are _____ members in the Drawing Club.

Getting Wet in the Rain

Who likes to get wet in the rain? A child made this Chapati Chart
after asking his friends.

Those who like Those who do

to get wet in not like to get
the rain wet in the rain

See the Chapati Chart and tell:

1) How many children like to get wet in the rain?
a) half b) one-fourth c) three-fourth
2) How many children do not like to get wet in the rain?
a) half b) one-fourth c) three-fourth

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If the number of children in the class is 28, then tell the number
of children
❖ who like to get wet in the rain __________
❖ who do not like to get wet in the rain __________

Tea, Coffee or Milk

Some children were asked which of these they liked most — Tea,
Coffee or Milk.

The drink they like Number of children

Milk 20

Coffee 10

Tea 10

Total Number of
children ________

Find out from the table:

❖ Children who like milk are ½/¼ of the total children.
❖ Children who like coffee are ½/¼ of the total children.
Show the liking for Tea, Coffee or Milk in a Chapati Chart.

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